BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

30/06/2007

Belarus: Chavez visits seeking to build partnership

Minsk Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for a strategic partnership with Belarus on Friday, calling his Belarusian counterpart a "brother-in-arms" and lamenting the pressure he said the United States was putting on Minsk and Caracas.

Chavez met with President Alexander Lukashenko after two days in Moscow, where Russian media speculated that Chavez was trying to arrange a major new purchase of Russian weaponry.

Chavez told Lukashenko that economic and military ties between the two countries were developing.

Source:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flahemidig06300nbjun30,0,5965235.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla

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